According to an article published Friday, January 30 in the Algerian daily El Watan website, “the Algerian and Moroccan intelligence services meet once a month in Algeria and Kingdom of Morocco alternately since September 2014 to boost the exchange of information concerning terrorist threats.”
According to the Algerian daily, the threat posed by the Islamic State of recruitment of cells in the region and the chaotic situation in neighboring Libya, forced the Algerian Department of Security intelligence (DRS) and Directorate General for Research and the Moroccan documentation (DGED) to strengthen their collaboration after a freeze.
This merger would have resulted in the recent arrest in Oujda of the Algerian suspected member of Jund al-Khilafa, an armed group that has pledged allegiance to Daech and claimed the assassination of the French Hervé Gourdel in September 2014. This cooperation has also permitted dismantle several terrorist recruitment cells, According to Algerian media.
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